Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 2 August 2069 at 23:44.
Sturgeon Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2069 after 23 days on 1 September 2069 at 09:06.
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1893".
Lunation 860 / 1813
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 860 of Meeus index or 1813 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 50 minutes and it is 2 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠66.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠66.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99.7°.
Moon after perigee
1 day since point of perigee on 7 August 2069 at 17:00 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 August 2069 at 23:32 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 363 419 km(225 818 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 552 km(251 377 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 26 July 2069 at 17:40 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 August 2069 at 03:46 in ♉ Taurus.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 30 July 2069 at 03:42 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.783° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.686° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 August 2069 at 05:16 in ♊ Gemini.
In 8 days on 16 August 2069 at 22:03 in ♌ Leo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.